6000+ truetype fonts for Linux

2010-05-13 1 min read Linux

Found a huge collection of fonts for linux. These are true type fonts and really a huge collection.

<a href="http://thelinuxbox.org/downloads/fonts/fonts.tar.gz">get here

updated: Forgot to mention that you can update the font cache without restarting the font server by executing the below command:

fc-cache -fv

xterm – select font name and size from command line and set it as default

2010-05-05 2 min read Fedora Linux

I have been very busy last week and specially yesterday with 20 hours of continueous work, but managed to get this working :).

When you right click on Xterm with Ctrl pressed, there pops up a menu for selecting the size of the font. I have always wondered how to set this as default font and/or use this from the command line. So I searched my old homedir and looked for few of the docs that I had to get the information. Here is what I found.

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